Megan Kate Nelson's Ruin Nation is one of several pioneering works uniting environmental and American Civil War history. This is the first book to investigate in detail the extent to which the Civil War destroyed natural and built environments. More importantly, it portrays how Americans-civilian and military, black and white-interacted with their created ruins during and after the war. Nelson's American Studies background facilitates the use of a vast and satisfying evidential base, made up of images, objects, and traditional written records, and enables her sophisticated argument: that Civil War ruins reflected multiple cultural meanings that proved savagely emotional and, oddly, transient.
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机译：梅根·凯特·纳尔逊（Megan Kate Nelson）的《废墟国家》（Ruin Nation）是将环境和美国内战历史结合起来的几项开创性作品之一。这是第一本详细调查内战破坏自然和建筑环境的程度的书。更重要的是，它描绘了在战争期间和战争之后，美国人，平民和军人，黑人和白人如何与他们创造的废墟互动。纳尔逊（Nelson）的美国研究背景有利于使用由图像，物体和传统书面记录组成的广阔而令人满意的证据基础，并提出了复杂的论据：内战废墟反映了多种文化含义，这些含义被证明是野蛮的情感性的，并且是奇怪的，是短暂的。
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